Inequalities in child health services and health economic impact of achieving proportionate universalism
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Community health service provision across different socioeconomic groups will be analysed using the Winkler Index. The current services will be compared to an ideal scenario, using models to estimate health and economic impacts by age 20. Long-term financial benefits of these services will also be calculated, with projections for returns by age 65.
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- Funder: Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life and Welfare
Description
Economic evaluations within health and healthcare have a central role in decision-making due to increasing healthcare needs, competing demands and the scarcity of both public and private resources. Health economics may thus be used as a tool to inform decision-makers on how to best allocate resources, through the application of evaluative methods.
WP2 will apply two widely used health economic methods, benefit incidence analysis (BIA) and economic modelling.
Through BIA, inequalities in the provision and utilization of child health services, as well as child health outcomes, will be examined. BIA can be a very useful tool in assessing health systems performance.
A microsimulation model will be developed for children and used to examine the impact of different interventions within child health services on child outcomes. The model will be developed using register data and data from literature to simulate the health and cost outcomes of children in Sweden. The model will later be used to examine the impact of an intervention delivered within child health services on the development of diseases, life expectancy, quality of life and healthcare costs over the life course of the child. The analyses will inform child health policy to identify the right target groups to be given the right strategies, thus improving child health outcomes and contributing to providing equitable child services at reasonable costs in Sweden.